With a safety razor, I need a shaving brush, a shaving soap, and a shaving bowl.
With a straight razor, I also need strop.
How do you travel with either option?
With a straight razor, I also need strop.
How do you travel with either option?
Traveling throughout the USA, the blades for your safety razor and your straight razor will either have to be shipped ahead to your hotel or placed in checked luggage - never in carry on luggage.
This is very good and wise advice.Never take anything on a trip that you would hate to lose or damage.
Never take anything on a trip that you would hate to lose or damage. I suspect many a nice strop has been left hanging on the back of the hotel room door when the previous night's occupant got in too big a hurry to check out after breakfast.
Light Saber
Sadly, the technology doesn't currently exist to create a real lightsaber. However, you can pack a toy lightsaber in your carry-on or checked bag. May the force be with you.
For a straight razor, I want to carry a strop coated with abrasive for sharpening. Someone on this forum recommended a balsa strop coated with diamond paste. I don't think I can carry a balsa strop coated with diamond paste.
I could do a backpack travel or an air travel.
What kinds of portable coated strops can I use for sharpening a straight razor?
Balsa strops are generally about 8-12" long and 2-3" wide and 1/4" thick, so there is no reason you could not pack one in a suitcase, backpack, etc. You just purchase a piece of balsa from your local hobby/craft store, sand it flat and then apply the diamond paste or other abrasive (CrOx, CBN, Dovo paste, etc.)
I would need a portable enclosure for a pasted balsa strop. Otherwise, the paste would be contaminated in a backpack.